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Life in the Limelight: Wayne Newton

Posted 8 hours, 25 minutes ago in The Kats Report

Have a question you’d like to ask Mr. Las Vegas? Or maybe a favorite story about Wayne Newton? Submit your question or story here and we’ll collect the best stories and Newton’s answers to your questions and publish them for everyone’s enjoyment early next week. Ask away! Wayne Newton - Stories, blogs, photos, bio Review: The story, but not the sound (Nov. 2, 2009) Newton’s recounting of Beach Boys controversy ...

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An entire campaign in one mail piece for Harry Reid

Posted 16 hours, 28 minutes ago in Politics: Ralston's Flash

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is powerful, determined, close to the president, helped elevate an Hispanic to the Supreme Court, saved jobs in the gaming industry, supported green jobs with T. Boone Pickens, backs the military, loves and helps cops and backs education. And on the seventh day…. That’s the message of a massive, colorful mail piece sent out by the state Democratic Party, a wholly owned subsidiary of the ...

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Politics: The Early Line

Berkley, Titus join Biden at dinner for Greek Orthodox Church leader: WASHINGTON — When the vice president opened his home to the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church this week, Nevada’s Democratic Reps. Shelley Berkley ...; (1 Comment)
Health care debate set to take center stage: WASHINGTON – Greetings, Early Liners and let the floor debate begin. The House health care bill debate could begin this week as leaders hope to ...; (2 Comments)
Health care, climate change on front burner in D.C.: WASHINGTON — Greetings, Early Liners. Today just might be the day so many have been waiting for, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is expected ...; (2 Comments)

News Blogs

Gaming and Business

The latest news, analysis, insights and observations by our gaming and business reporters. (RSS Feed)

Venetian restaurant up for top honors -- for bathroom (Posted 5 months, 9 days ago)
Encore makes magazine's annual 'It List' (Posted 5 months, 27 days ago)
MGM Grand, Stratosphere join all day buffet trend (Posted 5 months, 29 days ago)

Business Notebook

Business and gaming news around Las Vegas. (RSS Feed)

Report: Local economic rebound likely in 2011 (Posted 2 months, 29 days ago)
'WiMax' service coming to Las Vegas (Posted 4 months, 1 day ago)
News isn't all bad for Las Vegas companies (Posted 4 months, 7 days ago)

Elsewhere

Reports from other publications, aggregated by Sun staff, worthy of our readers' attention. (RSS Feed)

Fontainebleau suit takes aim at Soffer empire (Posted 2 days, 3 hours ago)
Mono puts date for Lesnar title defense in question (Posted 2 days, 12 hours ago)
Nogueira v. Velasquez rumored for 108 (Posted 3 days, 12 hours ago)

Sports

The Greene Room

Sun sportswriter Ryan Greene empties out his observations from around the sports world. (RSS Feed)

New Mexico soccer player goes MMA on BYU (Posted 2 days ago)
MWC Winners and Losers: Week 9 (Posted 6 days, 9 hours ago)
TCU is favored by a million over UNLV ... who ya got? (Posted 11 days, 1 hour ago)

Bloggity, Bloggity, Bloggity

StockcarToons cartoonist Mike Smith pops the hood on NASCAR racing. (RSS Feed)

How successful does a crew chief have to be? (Posted 9 days, 20 hours ago)
Martinsville provides what Bristol used to offer (Posted 12 days, 2 hours ago)
Would the No. 48 make Jr. great? (Posted 15 days, 18 hours ago)

Now and Then

Tidbits from sports writer Ron Kantowski (RSS Feed)

Rollie's team beats Isiah's team (Posted 2 days, 20 hours ago)
101 years and counting ... (Posted 3 days ago)
Le Moyne and lament: Syracuse loses to Division II school (Posted 3 days, 22 hours ago)

Sports: Upon Further Review

Beyond the box scores, the Sun's sports team brings you the latest betting lines, breaking news and other happenings around the Vegas sports scene. (RSS Feed)

Betting lines set for UFL openers (Posted 1 month, 2 days ago)
Strikeforce announces Fedor will fight Brett Rogers on Nov. 7 on CBS (Posted 1 month, 21 days ago)
Advertisement for myself (Posted 1 month, 23 days ago)

Sports: UNLV

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Sports Illustrated says Rebels football will go 8-4 this season (Posted 2 months, 26 days ago)
Wink Adams to play hoops in Turkey (Posted 2 months, 26 days ago)
Tark recuperating amid visits from well-wishers (Posted 2 months, 26 days ago)

Sports: Postcard From The Bigs

Ken Korach is the radio play-by-play man for the Oakland A’s. The Henderson resident’s broadcast career also has included stints with the Chicago White Sox, Las Vegas Stars and UNLV football and basketball. He will write occasionally from the road during the A’s season. (RSS Feed)

Veteran broadcaster remembers Gondo as a loyal friend and partner (Posted 6 months, 13 days ago)
Let the fans put their own asterisk on the Steroids Era* (Posted 8 months, 8 days ago)
There should be no debate about baseball Hall of Fame (Posted 9 months, 15 days ago)

Politics

The Early Line

Political news and analysis from the Sun's reporting team, focusing on national, state and local political scenes. (RSS Feed)

Berkley, Titus join Biden at dinner for Greek Orthodox Church leader (Posted 2 days, 22 hours ago)
Health care debate set to take center stage (Posted 6 days ago)
Health care, climate change on front burner in D.C. (Posted 13 days ago)

Politics: Ralston's Flash

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An entire campaign in one mail piece for Harry Reid (Posted 16 hours, 28 minutes ago)
Senate Conservatives Fund conference call: Reid is "pretty liberal" and NV trending conservative (Posted 3 days, 19 hours ago)
Campaign memo: Nevada is next state to show GOP stripes, Lowden "uniquely qualified" among primary challengers to beat Reid (Posted 3 days, 19 hours ago)

Face to Face: Final Take

Dying to know who refused to sit in the hot seat? Can't sleep without knowing which government types refuse to be held accountable? Go behind the scenes of Face to Face with Dana Gentry, the show's executive producer. (RSS Feed)